Today, though, if someone were to hand you a hundred-dollar bill, you might rub it between your fingers or hold it up to the light, just to confirm it wasn’t a fake. All this for an imaginary currency...
The brilliant strategist and historian B. H. Liddell Hart came to a stunning conclusion: In only 6 of the 280 campaigns was the decisive victory a result of a direct attack on the enemy’s main army. O...
That line in the movie Fight Club: You are not your job, you’re not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet.
Sometimes the longest way around is the shortest way home.
Reclaim the ability to abstain because within it is your clarity and self-control.
Never in a hurry never worried never desperate never stopping short
La seguridad en uno mismo se vuelve arrogancia, la asertividad se vuelve obstinación y la confianza en nuestras capacidades se convierte en descuido.
Just begin the work. The rest follows.
How we react to them, and whether we keep our composure.
He was willing to risk great personal harm and expend massive amounts of energy to develop that hardiness. You’ll have far better luck toughening yourself up than you ever will trying to take the teet...
Any fool can learn from experience. The trick is to learn from other people’s experience.
You’ve got your mission, whatever it is. To accomplish it, like the rest of us you’re in the pinch between the way you wish things were and the way they actually are (which always seem to be a disaste...
You’re becoming who you are going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.
You’ll have far better luck toughening yourself up than you ever will trying to take the teeth out of a world that is—at best—indifferent to your existence. Whether we were born weak like Roosevelt or...
Yes, there are legitimate stresses and anguish that come with the responsibilities of your new life. All the things you’re managing, the frustrating mistakes of people who should know better, the endl...
Who then is invincible? The one who cannot be upset by anything outside their reasoned choice. —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 1.18.21
While overpaid CEOs take long vacations and hide behind e-mail autoresponders, some programmer is working eighteen-hour days coding the start-up that will destroy that CEO’s business.
While others are excited or afraid, we will remain calm and imperturbable. We will see things simply and straightforwardly, as they truly are—neither good nor bad. This will be an incredible advantage...
Whenever you get an impression of some pleasure, as with any impression, guard yourself from being carried away by it, let it await your action, give yourself a pause. After that, bring to mind both t...
When you worry, ask yourself, ‘What am I choosing to not see right now?’ What important things are you missing because you chose worry over introspection, alertness or wisdom?